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Events on Thursday 31 August 1876 1
1876Ottoman succession crisis deposes two sultansAbdulaziz and Murad V both lose the throne within monthsSultan Abdulaziz was deposed in a palace coup on May 30, 1876, and found dead days later. His successor Murad V, judged mentally unfit, was himself deposed on August 31, 1876, and replaced by his brother Abdul Hamid II, giving the Ottoman Empire three sultans in a single year.